If our work is largely based on housing, public and private, rented or bought, the designs for public buildings are guided by the same objectives and themes. Our projects are created by dealing with a specific context - the site and the programme - with a conceptual method.

This method is in fact an attitude. It’s all about working towards a more efficient architecture, striving for a more “built” approach and a more reserved impact. Our projects try to reveal the underlying link between the way our buildings will be used and their context. Our reference points must be constantly updated and focused on the landscape, the environment, the economy and on an idea of how we can live together.

This attitude also implies the protection of the way we work as architects. We refuse to accept any suggestion of dividing professional practice into two separate domains – design and construction. Once again, the architectural act is comprehensive and continuous, and our presence on site should be seen as the last stage in the design process.

Our efforts to control and develop the making of our projects enable us to invent architectural “devices” which can solve more than just one problem. The goal is to turn the “constraints“ (the regulations and standards etc.) into vectors for the design process.

It’s important to feel that we can make mistakes, that possibility helps us question our work and therefore avoid falling into the trap of repeating ourselves.

The project takes into account the landscape, urban or rural, the potential views and orientations and sustainable development. It is structured by movement, light and everyday use, and especially by the building’s relationship with it’s surroundings.

Every generation of architects is confronted by the notion of time - being in touch with your time but not being trapped by it. The studio develops projects which can surprise, but which also portray a feeling of serenity and permanence.

Contemporary architectural expression becomes meaningful not by following transitory fashions, but by anticipating the evolution of the way our buildings will be used. Our work has to not only accompany an existing context, but also to reveal it’s future.